(Update) Judge: Trinidad and Tobago not bound by UN conventi

REFUGEES and asylum-seekers can be deported if they run afoul of local immigration laws since obligations under the 1951 UN Refugee Convention, and the principles of non-refoulment, do not apply to TT as they are not incorporated into domestic law, the High Court has ruled.

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